On Mar 15, 2012, at 7:15 PM, Phil Cupp <pcupp@microsoft.com> wrote:
> Brad, in your example below the expansion of b resulted in a non-rectangular cell so that wouldn't be OK.
Oops. I didn't even notice that. On the other hand, the spec doesn't seem to forbid non-rectangular grid cells, does it? It just doesn't have a way to create them other than with template. Personally, I think it would be useful to be able to create "L", "C", and "O" -shaped areas.
> I think its simplest just to treat the missing letters as an unnamed region of the grid. The location can be assigned to a grid item using a numeric position, but not by using a named grid cell. That's basically what Elika was suggesting with '.' padding, although we don't currently talk about the role of non-letters (i.e. '.') in the grid.
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> I'll open an issue to document something explicit regarding unequal lettering. I'll open another for documenting the role of non-letters for the grid-template property.